Question

I have a Cpanel-based hosting plan with my provider. I’ve managed to install both Compass and Sass by using Putty and everything seems to be fine, however when I try to use it I get sass: command not found from the terminal.

I understand that this is probably due to the fact that Sass/Compass are not referred to in environment variables but so far have been unable to find a way to get this to work. I don’t have sudo access to the server and have read that I can (maybe) add the PATH manually but I’m not having much luck.

Answer 1

1. Make sure you have Ruby & RubyGems installed:

2. Make sure your GEM_HOME’s bin directory is on your path:

   $ echo $PATH | grep $GEM_HOME
   

   2.1. If it isn’t, then:

   $ echo "export PATH=$PATH:$GEM_HOME/bin" >> "~/.bash_profile"
   

3. Install the sass RubyGem package

   gem install sass